AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +1257%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

0.415 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce GT 640 OEM Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jun 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

144

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.320 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.28 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

414.7 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GF116

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

GF116-150-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

75W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 5950

2

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI FirePro 2270

3

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

4

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GA102

5

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon HD 4550

6

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA PG506 232

7

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs AMD FirePro W5000

8

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

9

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 3840SP

10

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Related News

1

Intel Z890 Motherboard Specs Leaked: Farewell to DDR4 Memory

2

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series Now Available for Pre-order in Europe: 9950X Priced at €660, Shipping by August 2

3

AMD's Latest Breakthrough Technology Could Change the Game in the Future

4

Researchers Utilize NVIDIA Omniverse Platform to Analyze and Improve 3D Stacked Chip Designs

5

TSMC to Receive Over 60 EUV Lithography Machines Over the Next Two Years, Investing More Than $12.3 Billion

6

Samsung's Own 3nm Yield is Disheartening: Galaxy S25 May Introduce MediaTek for the First Time

7

AMD Ryzen 9000 DDR5 Memory Frequency Soars: Reaches 8000MHz with All Four Slots Occupied

8

Snapdragon 8 Gen 4 to Feature Frame Interpolation for GPU: A Game-Changing Experience

9

Intel Adds 5 New Device IDs to Latest Linux Xe Kernel in Preparation for Battlemage

10

Ryzen AI 9 365 Benchmark Results Leaked: Significant Improvements in Multi-Core and IPC Performance Over Previous Generation